Eridan averts his eyes once the girl is back on land. See, she's safe, no point staring after a lame witch who turns the whole freakin ocean on you in your own dream. she's the one who hasn't got anything better to do than interrupt a dream that was already pretty boring, considering Eridan didn't want to swim out and-

"It's not that I'm fuckin scared a it or I hate it," he mutters, returning to their earlier conversation when the waters began to recede. "I just don't. Wwant to go in there if I can fuckin help it." Didn't you just say if you had an issue with the ocean, you wouldn't tell this witch? Somehow keep secrets seems kind of pointless in this dream.